Outside the Beltway tells me today that Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) is saying that Saddam Hussein was definitely linked to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, claiming access to special evidence that nobody else has seen or been able to turn up. Hayes told CNN, “I’m sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong

On 8 May, while driving home to Chicago from a trip to Canada, a Chicago businessman was held at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel border checkpoint by the Department of Homeland Security, where he says he was shackled to a chair for over three hours, repeatedly kicked while being searched, and isolated from his family for over

A new California National Guard intelligence unit tracked a Mother’s Day protest held by the Davis (California) chapter of Code Pink, a “women initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and non-violent direct action.” “The National Guard doesn’t need to do this,” said Christopher Pyle, a

John Walton, heir to the Wal-Mart fortune, died when his ultralight plane crashed Monday in Jackson, Wyoming, leaving behind a fortune estimated at $20 billion. No word is yet available on the cause of the crash. Courtesy CNN.

The threat of homeland stupidity: The color-coded Homeland Stupidity Threat Advisory is used to communicate with the public at large through a threat-based, color-coded system so that protective measures can be implemented to reduce the likelihood or impact of homeland stupidity. Now you too can display the Homeland Stupidity Threat Advisory System on your web

For quite a while now I have been interested in VoIP and the effect it is having and will continue to have on telecommunications and society at large. But I have a little problem keeping up with VoIP news: I have so many newsfeeds in my feed reader now that I can barely keep up

William Powell, author of The Anarchist Cookbook, has apparently had a change of heart. He’s posted an editorial at Amazon.com where he apparently disavows his own book, citing youthful ignorance. One choice cut: I want to state categorically that I am not in agreement with the contents of The Anarchist Cookbook and I would be

The Internal Revenue Service has launched an internal investigation into whether taxpayer and financial data it stores may have been compromised, according to a Reuters report. [The] Government Accountability Office said in April that the IRS “routinely permitted excessive access’ to the computer files. The GAO team was able to tap into the data without

From Raising Kaine comes a study (PDF) commissioned by Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the threat of terrorism using weapons of mass destruction: “–for the foreseeable future, the United States and other nations will face an existential threat from the intersection of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.” The

Edgar Ray Killen, 80, was found guilty today of felony manslaughter in the killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. Jurors rejected murder charges, but found Killen guilty of manslaughter for organizing the killings. The victims, James Earl Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, had been helping to register black voters. Killen